In the Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member, our epic saga began as I explained how I (on a whim) came to be employed at Walt Disney World and I told the tale up through my orientation and training. The adventure continued in the Cast Member Diaries Part Two: Spreading the Pixie…
Category: Misadventures
Entertaining things that have happened at me at Walt Disney World.
The Cast Member Diaries Part Two: Spreading The Pixie Dust
In The Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member, I detailed the epic saga of how I applied for–and ultimately got–a job at Walt Disney World. When we left our stalwart hero (that’d be me, folks) at the end of that post, I had just completed my training and was now working at…
The Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member
One day–I couldn’t have been more than thirteen years old at the time–I was riding a monorail at Walt Disney World. A cast member (the blanket term for any Disney employee) was also riding in our car. She was still in costume and wearing her name tag, and I started talking with her. I can’t remember the…
Stranger in a Strange Land
I like to consider myself something of a Disney expert. I’ve been going to Walt Disney World for decades, after all, and even spent a short time working at the Disney/MGM Studios a long time ago, but up until recently I had never visited any of the other Disney parks. It wasn’t until this past November that I…
Park Hopping
The plan, when it started out, was pretty straightforward: on the last full day of our trip we were going to go to Animal Kingdom in the morning, and then head on over to Magic Kingdom. Plans change, though. One thing leads to another and before you know it you’re traveling all over Walt Disney…
Change Of Plans
Let’s say you were planning a trip to Paris. Having never been there before, you’re excited to see all of the big tourist attractions: the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, mimes, et cetera. When you get there, though, you find out that the Louvre is closed. You’d be pretty disappointed, if that’s something…